Archives for
July 2010

The YouTube blog has just posted about a new video embed style that uses and will eventually provide a more robust experience for users across browsers and devices. The big advantage of this new embed style is that it can serve content to users using...

Mashable is excited to announce the second of the #WinWeekend Weekly Sweepstakes contests in partnership with Live Nation. Last weekend, we gave away a $250 concert cash prize to one lucky winner. This week, we're upping the ante. This weekend, we're...

Bravo, The History Channel and now VH1 believe in the power of Foursquare so much so that they're broadcasting television ads to promote their presences on the platform. VH1 is the latest cable network to hop on the Foursquare train. It has created a...

Thanks to this week’s advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. Mashable's sponsors are as social media savvy as our readers! Advertise with us and get noticed. Mashable is seeking out site spon...

Our fascination with Google -- and what it’s like to work there -- continues as we take you inside for a look behind the scenes. We’ve all heard stories about the free food, dog-friendly offices, and wacky decor. And guess what -- it's all true. We'v...

Singer-songwriter Evan Taubenfeld, who you may remember as the former lead guitarist for Avril Lavigne, released the music video for his song "Pumpkin Pie" yesterday. The song is the third single off Taubenfeld's debut solo album Welcome to the Black...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told ABC's Diane Sawyer this week that Facebook would "definitely think about" adding a Dislike button to the site, allowing users to express distaste for updates or pages on Facebook. A Facebook group for the concept has...

Mozilla Creative Lead Aza Raskin has released Tab Candy, an experimental feature for Firefox that reimagines tabbed browsing through tab groups and reorganization. In a post on his blog, Raskin introduced the new tab management system. Tab Candy is l...

VEVO and YouTube have taken another step to establish themselves in the online music space by announcing a partnership with American Express to launch a series of live-streamed concerts, “Unstaged: An Original Series from American Express." The five-...

Are you currently salivating all over your keyboard, starving both for weekend joys and a home-cooked meal? Oh, man, aren't we all? Well, the Mashable staff isn't much for cookery, but we have managed to gather together a rather succulent crop of You...

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. N...

HP has confirmed that it will not be making phones with Microsoft Windows Phone 7, but will instead develop handsets exclusively with webOS, the mobile OS it acquired when it bought Palm earlier this year. In an interview with CNBC, HP's Todd Bradley...

With the rise of e-book technologies such as the Amazon Kindle and Apple's iBooks, are we finally witnessing the end of the printed word? That's the question we posed this week in our Web Faceoff series. We wanted to know whether you, the readers, pr...

Facebook's social plugins, especially its popular "Like" button, have spread across the web like wildfire. They were on 50,000+ websites within one week after launch, on 100,000+ sites in less than a month, and are now on 350,000+ sites. There are st...

SCVNGR -- the location-based mobile app that takes a really creative approach to the space -- is teaming up with Columbia Pictures to help promote the upcoming film, Eat Pray Love. The movie, which stars Julia Roberts, is about a woman who goes on a ...

The vice grip of the World Cup has loosened after five straight weeks on top, and given way to a real mixed bag of Twitter trends. Taking the cake this week is the psychological sci-fi thriller Inception, which left many tweeters raving and head scra...

A survey performed by the Yankee Group found that 73% of iPhone users are "very satisfied" with AT&T, despite all the negative press the cellular network has received since the iPhone launched back in 2007. Also, 77% of iPhone owners would buy anothe...

Within the past few years, it seems that social media positions are popping up everywhere, in all types of organizations, from The New York Times, to Pizza Hut, and even in the White House. Businesses of all types are identifying the need to stay con...

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. N...

It turns out that you can play the classic game Snake (especially popular on cellphones back in the day) at Google-owned YouTube by holding the left and up arrow keys on your keyboard while a video is playing or paused. Once the game starts, you can ...

For designers and lovers of design, a typeface can be as visually pleasing as any painting. We’ve searched the web for great typographical accessories that will brighten up your office space, home, and maybe even your personal style with font-based f...

Ahoy, social sailors! Hop aboard for another round of Internet catch up, courtesy of the good ship Mashable. The resource buffet is open 24/7 for your perusing pleasure. This week, we have a look at how far social media's come over the last five year...

An independent documentary film called Ready, Set, Bag! has made innovative use of social media to promote itself in the challenging local theater market, and its strategy culminates with a Groupon that could change the way small films are distribute...

A brief, though extremely well-produced, faux trailer has been making the viral rounds these past few days, depicting what would happen if they had fight club during the days of Jane Austen. We imagine a whole lot more boys would have been OK with re...

There seems to be something about Apple's iPad that brings out a user's inventive side. In its short life it has already seen some amazing uses. Here we bring you five more cool iPad creations that take the tablet device and mod it into something big...

Back in June, Steve Jobs asserted in an e-mail statement that Apple requires its suppliers to certify in writing that they use conflict mineral-free materials. Now, the U.S. government has gotten into the game full-tilt, enacting a new law that requi...

"140-character status updates to a network of followers." That makes Twitter sound simple. But in fact, the social information platform has grown to be much more complex than its 140 character-limit suggests. The site not only connects people, but ha...

For such a classical institution, the British Monarchy has tried surprisingly hard to be tech and social media savvy in recent years, but it has failed to embrace the "social" side of the term. The latest example of that is the royal family's Flickr ...

But wait, there's more! The infomercial is an art form best appreciated after 2 a.m. -- and perhaps after a few beers. The classic examples use over-acting and cliched characters to whip the viewer up into a purchasing frenzy by adding ever-increasin...

While you don't have to worry about how to hold your iPad, there will be times when you want to go hands-free. We've scoured the Internet for the best iPad stands known to man, and have pulled together a top 10 list of products we'd be happy to see h...

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